Hello friends and welcome back.

Today you're going to hear a live recording from Paragraph's bookstore in Mount Vernon, Ohio,

with our good buddy, Maxwell.

He's going to present to you a Middle Earth march through Mount Vernon.

This is an all-day event that will be celebrating National Hobbit Day in downtown Mount Vernon.

At the same time, starting at 11 a.m., Lane and myself will be hosting a long-expected party number three.

We have a completely separate podcast coming out later this week where we're going to detail all

of our events, special merch, trivia, live podcast, and all the things. So these two events are going

on simultaneously. So as you listen, we just wanted you to keep that in mind. You'll have a Middle

Earth marched through Mount Vernon in downtown, and you'll also have the long-expected party number three at Ariel

Foundation Park in Mount Vernon, Ohio. This will be a full day of Hobbit celebrations,

meeting new friends and old friends, and enjoying our shared love expected podcast. I'm Ez.

And I'm Lane. And I'm Maxwell. And we're talking Tolkien. We're sitting here looking at a pamphlet passport, and guys, it's, you know, we've been talking about it sort of incrementally, or like it's, you know, it's been building up just how amazing this event is going to be. And I was thinking on the way up, I'm like, what do I have to say? I don't really have much to say of this other than like, I, I'm in awe of, same. We joked around about this, Max, we're like, we're going to show up and just be like, wow, just kind of like, you're going to see, okay, you guys are joking around about Lane being speechless. I'll probably be dumbfounded. I'll be walking around like oh my gosh because there's just so much so all that to say hats off to to you

for the coordinating the planning the hard work just on the front i'm not going to bury the lead here

of of all the work that you've done to put this thing together because i think people yeah it's one

thing to look at it it's one thing to hear about it's another thing to see it on paper and just be like, holy cow, and then to experience it that day, I think people are going to be blown away. And I think, I don't know. I'm just, I'm thankful to you for everything you've done because you've honestly made it like, we're not going to be able to take any credit for anything. Like we're we're just going to be able to show no that's a great thing is we're going to show up and be like all all hail max yeah and now we can hang out with people and enjoy time with with uppers who are coming from all over the all over the place which usually we wouldn't be able to do because we'd be running into the kitchen or yeah setting something up in

the backyard or you know parking cars or whatever smoking some old toby smoking some old tobe whatever it may be

whatever it is no but uh yeah this is crazy because i think uh right before we started recording i was

asking max like is this going to be something that we do maybe in the future is it's a one-time thing

and it's it's literally starting to look like it's going to be something that we do maybe in the future? This is a one-time thing.

And it's literally starting to look like it's going to be an annual thing. That is the hope. That's the hope. I'm not going to get ahead. I'm not going to go crazy. That's a lane move right there, dog. Geez. Wow. I like to put it out there. What do you call that? I'm manifesting it. Yeah, you are. Well, I think what he's done here too is like looking at this and just

talking to him. We have this running text chain, too, between the three of us that, I mean, it started probably last fall, right? Probably. I think it did. And it's just been literally, hey, guys, this is being added. We're putting this on a list. Hey guys, I reached up to these businesses. I had to stop. I had to stop texting you guys. I literally was like, I'm going to blow.

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